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Gulu. Northern Uganda. October 2000.
Dr.Matthew Lukwiya, head doctor at St.Marys Missionary Hospital in Lacor and the person who identified the cause of the spate of deaths in Gula as Ebola stands in front of a staff protest. The nurses are protesting at news of another two of their collegues contracting the Ebola virus and died working at the hospital. They were distressed at the lack of management of the crisis. Dr. Matthew calmed the tension and after attending the funreals of the nurses returned to work. Dr. Matthew was himself to die a week later of the virus.